Don't Trust Snakes: Huh?

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ROGER THORNHILL

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Huh?

Some of history's most famous one-liners are about to be exposed as inventions by other writers with plenty of time to hone their prose. Hundreds of pithy remarks from "Let them eat cake" to "Elementary, my dear Watson", turn out to be adaptations of comments that were more clumsy or more boring - or which were never said by those thought to have coined them.

The list includes many supposedly historical lines, such as Napoleon's "Not tonight Josephine", but also covers modern icons including Star Trek. No one ever said "Beam me up Scotty", and Mr Spock never said "It's life Jim, but not as we know it." - The Guardian, October 25, 2006

"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"—Who the hell ever thought he said that?

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